#18
Six months on the road teaches you a lot about planning, but here’s the surprising part: it also teaches you how to find joy in doing the every day.
Sure, there are endless to-dos: where we’ll stay, what shoes will work, how to use up everything in the freezer before we leave. But I’m realizing each of those tasks can either feel like a weight - or an invitation to play.
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So much to do and plan!
It’s been a slow process starting to prepare for the next on-the-road experience. Partly because life at home has been full — in the best of ways — and partly because I’ve learned to trust the timing and flow of what life offers in the moment.
Time feels like it’s speeding up, so I’ve been practicing pacing myself, breathing, and being present right here.
Read More#16
There’s a moment I’ll never forget.
I was sitting on my balcony staring at the trees and feeling this strange mix of gratitude and restlessness. My life looked “good” — I had a great career, a home, a relationship I cared about. But inside, something was quietly tugging at me: there’s more.
It wasn’t about throwing everything away. It wasn’t about starting from scratch.
It was about stepping into a truer, more expansive version of myself — one that I could feel was waiting for me.
#15
I’ve learned so much from this first go-around with slow travel. We were flying by the seat of our pants, creating as we went, with no blueprint for how we would do this. There was so much to learn, to navigate, to plan — and so much I could only learn by actually living it.
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It was time to disembark.
This cruise has been good to us. We stayed healthy, rested, and I had the highlight day of the entire trip here. During one port with decent Wi-Fi, I booked us a hotel for four nights in Santiago, about an hour and a half from the port city of San Antonio where we got off the ship. Normally I’d have arranged our transfer in advance, but Tim assured me we could just figure it out when we got there. Unusual for me, and a good practice in letting go.
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And so we flow and move again from Rio to Buenos Aires for two nights before boarding the Princess Sapphire for a 14-day cruise through Argentina and Chile. It’s March 5th now. We board the ship on the 7th and land in San Antonio, Chile on the 21st.
We left on October 5th. Five full months on the road.
Wow. Just wow!
The words don’t quite capture it — what an adventure this has been. From dreaming and planning to detours and figuring things out as we go… it’s a testament to what’s possible when you co-create with life.
#12
It’s now the middle of February, and we’re disembarking from the cruise. We have about six weeks left of our travels, and we’re definitely feeling a little road-weary. The cruise, which was meant to be rejuvenating, had its ebbs and flows. We’ve already booked a 14-day cruise out of Buenos Aires the first week of March, so we have about two weeks to cover before boarding that ship. All of the ports—minus Aruba—felt like one-and-done stops. No full-body YES to anywhere we’d want to return for a longer stay.
Read More#11
It’s now the middle of February, and we’re disembarking from the cruise. We have about six weeks left of our travels, and we’re definitely feeling a little road-weary. The cruise, which was meant to be rejuvenating, had its ebbs and flows. We’ve already booked a 14-day cruise out of Buenos Aires the first week of March, so we have about two weeks to cover before boarding that ship. All of the ports—minus Aruba—felt like one-and-done stops. No full-body YES to anywhere we’d want to return for a longer stay.
Read More#10
And so we flowed from Costa Rica to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for two nights before setting off on a 12-day cruise through the Caribbean and Panama Canal. Tim and I had done a fair amount of cruising in our earlier years but hadn’t traveled this way in about 15 years — and definitely not together. We each had different experiences from cruising before, but they weren’t as joyful or fun as we would have liked. So we decided to give this type of travel another go.
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